Paul Dechene

You can now listen to this week's QCIB on Youtube. Episode title, "We Are Skuare v Kick Puncher Idols" is a reference to a movie idea that Aidan pitched. It is a very good idea. Will be a blockbuster. Auditions this fall. #yqrcc youtu.be/s-Hr2UrrJpQ?...

Here's the fucking thing… before there was AI, the band posters didn't suck. Most kinda ruled, actually. Same goes for event posters & shit. AI isn't making your things any better. It's just making everybody dumber.

if (big if obviously but for many this is the approach) you ignore the pollution/GHG/etc impacts of combusting natural gas it's a completely coherent strategy. Which is why I increasingly think the idea that data centres will net improve climate outcomes by driving renewable growth isn't correct.

America is literally the reason the phrase Banana Republic exists, but go on.

Thanks for having me on the show. Keep up the good work, @pauldechene.bsky.social and Aidan Morgan!

Is it true the Coop Refinery was opposed to a new residential neighbourhood 1km from their facility but now they're saying a 510 bed work camp INSIDE their complex is just fine??? (Spoilers: It's true.) On the latest Queen City Improvement Bureau: youtu.be/dt3MJUMmzF4?... #yqrcc

We talk w/ the UofR's Sean Tucker about the Coop Refinery proposal to build a 510 bed work camp inside their north Regina facility. Is it safe or ethical? Does council have authority to shoot this down or are their hands tied? #yqrcc youtu.be/dt3MJUMmzF4?...

All this Democrat triumphalism is predicated upon their fellow Americans not being fucked in the head. I think they are going to be sorely disappointed.

This quality has always baffled me about Toronto and Halifax has the same issue. Both need lessons in livability from Montreal. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

For the first time, the annual UN Emissions Gap report, released Wednesday, states that overshooting 1.5 degrees Celsius of temperature increase is “imminent and unavoidable” and that the goal now is to limit the overshoot by phasing out fossil fuels. More ⬇️ buff.ly/4Xk3UYH

MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record two-thirds of new cars in China are now electric (NEVs*), while combustion-car sales have fallen by two-thirds since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵

We had world expert on the Co-op Refinery, Sean Tucker, on the Queen City Improvement Bureau. He talked about the proposal to put a "work" <cough>scab</cough> camp on site. What could such a development presage for this local industrial overlord? #yqrcc queencityib.com/podcasts/202...

Hey, all you Regina night owls… Here's today's Queen City Improvement Bureau with Sean Tucker about the Coop Refinery scab camp proposal. queencityib.com/podcasts/202... #yqrcc

It’s funny how if I said, “You know that prairie conservative who murdered somebody?” you’d have to say, “which one?”

Imagine what the results on these questions would look like if the Alberta NDP had put its back into fighting them from the start. #abpoli

Here's a life lesson… If you're used to getting things done at the last minute, if you are sweaty friends with the spirit of the eleventh hour, don't change. Never try to get things in early. The universe will conspire against you so that you will just wind up stressing for longer.

Side note… in case you didn't know… you can sit down & drink your coffee at 33 1/3 now. By night, the second floor is a wine bar, but during the day, it's a chill sitting area. One advantage of 33 1/3 is the music here is typically much better than most places.

Yeah. I had to miss the Planning Commission meeting today. I worked right through it. And I'll be missing tomorrow's executive committee meeting too. So much still to do. #yqrcc

But! This week on the Queen City Improvement Bureau, we have Sean Tucker, a business prof & labour advocate from the UofR. He'll be talking about the refinery's plan to put up a scab camp. Thu at 7pm on 91.3FM CJTR @accessnowradio.ca #yqrcc

Absolutely not. Humans evolved to live on Earth and there’s no other place that has the right amount of everything we need, like climate, liquid water, mix of oxygen and non-toxic gases in the atmosphere, magnetic field, gravity, puppies, kittens, etc.

yes i'm posting a lot today but i swear i'm working in another tab it's one of those days where the work stuff i'm doing isn't occupying enough of my executive function & that's allowing the brain squirrels space to run rampant over my attention span

A provincial reporter once got very testy with me for insinuating in my writing that the Yellow Vesters (remember them) were primarily motivated by racism. I was informed that, no, it was "economic anxiety." Yeah, how'd that hot take age?

i'm no expert, but i assume that First Nations running out of ballots as residents show up in record numbers is probably an indicator of how things are going politically in Alberta.

This is the quote of the night.

At the core of Qs 1 to 5 in AB's referendum is sticking it to immigrants. That's it. Quit trying to suggest there's subtlety in the wording or that somehow everyone who voted Yes on them isn't a racist.